Question reference: S6W-02710
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 7 September 2021
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Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 September 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-32512 by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 November 2020, how many cases of fly-tipping have been recorded in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021 to date.
Answer
There is no single dataset of all flytipping incidents in Scotland, as there is no legal requirement for duty bodies or landowners to report on flytipping externally. The figures provided below represent incidents reported via the Litter Monitoring System and FlyMapper.
It is clear that the data varies significantly from year to year but it is not possible to deduce whether this relates to variations in incidents or variations in reporting by relevant bodies.
Year | Flytipping incidents recorded by Flymapper and Litter Monitoring System |
2014 | 3,096 |
2015 | 7,295 |
2016 | 10,447 |
2017 | 10,329 |
2018 | 6,613 |
2019 | 1,018 |
2020 | 4,272 |
2021* | 2,534 |
*This relates to the number of flytipping incidents up to 8 September 2021.